Anatolia News Agency comes under cyber attack

Written By THA on Saturday, 19 May 2012 | 16:07

Anatolia News Agency has announced that it had come under a cyber attack today.

The agency reported via its own news feed that its news database has come under attack at around 5:00 a.m.

"Our news feed was temporarily halted due to the attack," Anatolia said and added that the reports in its database were damaged. The attack was reportedly stopped by Anatolia's IT personnel before it could cause more harm to the agency's systems.

The agency did not mention the origin of the attack. (Anatolia News Agency)